When was it? June? July? It was hot. Central Illinois in the summer.
I never pictured myself as a grifter traveling from town to town, but there I was canvassing Champaign-Urbana, looking for gullible college students to buy some magazine subscriptions.
You stood there in the doorway. You said you had to go, didn't have time. But you let me in a for a sec.
I'll never forget your green shag carpet or striped shirt or the Janes Addiction playing on your CD.
The light was so bright outside, but it seemed gentle in your room, tamed for the moment. It was waiting for me though. Waiting outside in a passenger van with a bad temper.
I just wanted to tell you that I've loved you since then, back in midsummer '96. You didn't say more than a dozen words to me, and I only saw you for a few minutes at the most, but I have loved you ardently nonetheless.
Now it's years later, thousands of miles away. I never even told you my name. And you never told me yours.
I never pictured myself as a grifter traveling from town to town, but there I was canvassing Champaign-Urbana, looking for gullible college students to buy some magazine subscriptions.
You stood there in the doorway. You said you had to go, didn't have time. But you let me in a for a sec.
I'll never forget your green shag carpet or striped shirt or the Janes Addiction playing on your CD.
The light was so bright outside, but it seemed gentle in your room, tamed for the moment. It was waiting for me though. Waiting outside in a passenger van with a bad temper.
I just wanted to tell you that I've loved you since then, back in midsummer '96. You didn't say more than a dozen words to me, and I only saw you for a few minutes at the most, but I have loved you ardently nonetheless.
Now it's years later, thousands of miles away. I never even told you my name. And you never told me yours.
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at times like this it's good to know there are countries with a bigger army made up of only women than the US' entire.